"The last thing a young artist should do in poetry or any other field is think about whats in style, whats current, what are the trends. Think instead of what you like to read, what do you admire, what you like to listen to in music. What do you like to look at in architecture? Try to make a poem that has some of those qualities."

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Source : "On Living Merrily and Trusting Good Verses" by Robert Pinsky, bigthink.com.

Robert Pinsky

#Thinking Quotes #Artist Quotes #Style Quotes

“Whatever it takes to get the image to reach that level is what that photographer needs to do.”
“But surely, if you trust God, you can believe the bad moments pass, and the good memories are worth enough.”

Source : Helen Hooven Santmyer (1982). “"---and ladies of the club"”, Putnam Pub Group
“To love God in the most practical way is to love our fellow beings. If we feel for others in the same way as we feel for our own dear ones, we love God.”
“Laughter can help relieve tension in even the heaviest of matters.”
“Maybe I'm a dreamer, but I think the ordinary guy has just as much right to say 'This is a good song' as somebody who is in the music business.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, labs.imdb.com.
“You have to give everybody another recourse as some means other than violence, no matter how distasteful it may be to have to deal with them and what they represent.”
“Talking about dreams is like talking about movies, since the cinema uses the language of dreams; years can pass in a second and you can hop from one place to another. It's a language made of image. And in the real cinema, every object and every light means something, as in a dream.”

Source : Rolling Stone, No. 421, 1984.
“I wish the whole day were like breakfast, when people are still connected to their dreams, focused inward, and not yet ready to engage with the world around them. I realized this is how I am all day; for me, unlike other people, there doesn't come a moment after a cup of coffee or a shower or whatever when I suddenly feel alive and awake and connected to the world. If it were always breakfast, I would be fine.”

Source : Peter Cameron (2009). “Someday This Pain Will Be Useful to You: A Novel”, p.85, Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR)

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